Holder for packaging phonograph records



Feb. 7, 1961 J, JOHNSON 2,970,687

HOLDER FOR PACKAGING PHONOGRAPH RECORDS Filed March 3, 1958 2 Sheets-Sheet l INV EN TOR. Jerome f. Jdk/fim A TTORNE Y Feb. 7, 1961 JOHNSQN 2,970,687

HOLDER FOR PACKAGING PHONOGRAPH RECORDS Filed March 3, 1958 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR. Jam/Ire Blah/750 ZZWQM A TTORNE Y United States Patent 6 HOLDER FOR PACKAGING PHONOGRAPH RECORDS Jerome E. Johnson, Westwood, N.J., assignor to Tension Envelope Corporation, South Hackensaclr, N.J., a corporation of New York Filed Mar. 3, 1958, Ser. No. 718,652

2 Claims. (Cl. 206-62) This invention relates to holders for retaining phonograph records and similar articles in envelopes or other wrappers.

For example, phonograph records are usually contained in an album or jacket, and when mailed the album or jacket with the record therein is placed in a wrapper, together with one or more reinforcing boards to prevent bending and/or breaking thereof. Usually the reinforcing board is larger than the album or jacket in which the record is contained and during shipment the album or jacket shifts from side to side, with the result that the edges and corners thereof are not adequately protected.

It is, therefore, a principal object of the invention to provide a holder which retains the album or jacket with the record therein in a fixed position within the wrapper.

A further object of the invention is to provide a holder which includes a backing board having spaced apart pockets fixed thereto'for containing opposite sides of the album or jacket.

A further object of the invention is to provide a pocket element that is readily adapted to be manufactured by envelope making machinery.

In accomplishing these and other objects of the invention, as hereinafter pointed out, I have provided improved structure, the preferred form of which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a holder constructed in accordance with the present invention and showing an album or jacket held thereby and ready for insertion in a wrapper such as a mailing envelope.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of an envelope-like struc ture comprising a pair of pockets that are adapted to be used in the assembly of the holder.

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the method of separating the pockets for use. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the reverse side of the pockets showing the application of an adhesive by which the pockets are attached to a reinforcing or backing board of the holder.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the holder with the closure flaps on the pockets in open position and a record album or jacket having a record therein for insertion into the holder.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the blank from which a pair of pockets is formed.

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary enlarged section through one side edge of the holder on the line 7-7 of Fig. 1.

and 89 surrounding the jacket. The wrapper 4 may be an envelope of usual construction in that it includes front and back panels 10 and 11 connected along three sides by folds 12, 13 and 14 to form therebetween a pocket 15. The edges of the front and back panels opposite the fold 14 are unconnected to provide an insert opening 16 to the pocket of the envelope and whichis closed by a closure flap 17 that constitutes an integral part of the front panel 10 and is adapted to be folded over the insert opening 16 on a fold line 18 to bring an adhesive stripe 19 thereon into sealing contact with an adhesive stripe 20 on the back panel 11 to form a pressure seal type of envelope. However, it is obvious that the closure flap may be provided with ordinary gum that is moistened prior to folding of the flapto 7 make sealing contact with the back panel.

An envelope is selected having a width so that side edges 21 and 22 of the holder slide freely into contact with the inner portions of the folds 1213 to seat the edge 23 within the fold 14. The edge 23 substantially coincides with the fold 13, so that the closure flap 17 may be folded over the back panel 11, as later described. It is obvious that the size of the holder 1 is dependent upon the size of the album or jacket 2 and that the envelope or wrapper 4 is dependent upon the size of the backing board 5 required to provide marginal portions 6, 7, 8 and 9.

The holder 1 also includes laterally spaced apart pockets 24 and 25 on the board 5. The pockets 24 and 25 each include a back panel 26' having a length corresponding with the height of the album or jacket 2 and of sufficient width to provide the necessary surface for attachment to a face side 27 of the backing board of the holder, as later to be described. Each pocket also includes a front panel 28. The panels 26 and 28 are connected along one longitudinal side edge by a fold 29. The back panel 26 has a bottom flap 30 that is integral with the bottom end thereof by a fold 31 and whereon the flap 30 is folded over the bottom edge of the front panel 28 and sealed thereto by a suitable adhesive 32. The opposite end of the back panel has a closure flap 33 extending therefrom and which is adapted to be folded on a transverse fold 34 to overlap the corresponding end of the panel 28. In the illustrated instance, the closure flap 33 is provided on the inner face thereof with a stripe of sealing gum 35 that is adapted to make sealing contact with a similar stripe of sealing gum 36 on the front panel 28 after it has been placed in the holder, as later described, the sealing stripes 35 and 36 being provided by a pressure sealing gum which effects a seal responsive to pressure contact of one sealing stripe with the other. If desired, ordinary sealing gum may be used, in which case it would be applied to the inner face of the closure flap 33 and wetted prior to folding of the closure flap 33.

In order to facilitate manufacture of the pockets 24 and 25 and adapt them to production by means of envelope making machinery, a pair of pockets simulate an envelope structure as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The blank 37 from which the pair of pockets is formed is shown in Fig. 6 and follows generally a standard blank for an open end envelope, and includes a rectangular body portion or panel 38 of a size to form the back panels 26-26 of a pair of pockets 24 and 25. Extending from the longitudinal sides of the back panel are side flaps 39 and 40 (Fig. 6) that constitute the front panels of the pockets. The blank has the side and end folds 2929 and 31-34. The flaps 39 and 40 have a combined width less than the width of the body portion 38, so that when folded thereover the edges 41 and 42 of the front panels 28 that are formed by the flaps are spaced apart to expose an area of the body portion 38 which is provided with a line 33-33, the flaps being spaced apart in registry with the terminal ends of the line of severance indicated at 44 I and 45 Fig. 6).

The blanks thus described may be folded and gummed with envelope making machinery, the side flaps 39 and 40 being first folded on the lines 29-29 to overlie the inner face of the body portion 38 of the blank, in which position the edges 41 and 42 are spaced apart to permit application of the line of perforations 43.

The flaps 3'0 are provided with the gum stripes 32--32 and are then folded over the lower marginal edges of the flap portions 39 and 40 to form a seal therewith. The closure flaps 3333 remain extended and the gum stripes 3535 are applied thereto along with the similar gum stripes 36-36 on the outer sides of the front panels 2828.

The envelopes on delivery from the envelope making machine appear as shown in Fig. 2, and are preferably furnished to the packager of the records in the form shown. The pairs of pockets 24 and 25 thus provided in the envelope-like structure are torn apart along the line of perforations 43, after which the outer face of the back panels 26 are provided with sufiicient adhesive 47 to adhere the pockets to the face 27 of the backing board 5, as shown in Fig. 5. To facilitate placement of the pockets 24 and 25, markings may be provided on the board (not shown) or the pockets 24 and 25 may be pockets in itself forms no part of the present invention.

The pockets 24 and 25 are placed on-the backing board 5 with the side folds 29 thereof positioned in T inwardly spaced relation with the edges 21 and 22 of the backing board and with the end folds 31 and 34 substantially spaced between the top and bottom edges '2323 of the board with the side edges 46 that have been provided through separation of the pockets on the line of perforations 43 spaced apart in facing relation. The closure flaps 3333 remain extended and the album or jacket 2 in which the record 3 is contained is slipped into the open space between the side folds 29 with the opposite marginal edges of the album passing between the front and rear panels of the pockets until the bottom edge of the album or jacket makes contact with the folds 31-31 at the bottom ends of the pockets. When the album or. jacket is in position within the pockets, the closure flaps 33--33 are folded across the upper edges of the album or jacket 2 to bring the sealing stripes 3535 thereof into pressure sealing contact with the sealing stripes 36-36 on the front panels 28-28 of the pockets. When the album or jacket 2 with the phono- Y graph record 3 therein is thus engaged within the pockets,

it is firmly retained on the board 5 of the holder, so that it cannot shift relatively thereto after the assembly is inserted in the wrapper or envelope 4. When the holder 1 with the album and record 3 therein is in place in the wrapper 4, theclosure flap 17 is folded over to bring the sealing gum l9 thereon in sealing contact with the pressure sealing gum 20 on'the back panel 11 of the envelope.

From the foregoing, itIis obvious that I have provided 7 a holder which'firmly and securely retains an album or jacket with a phonograph record therein so that the edges thereof are spaced inwardly from and protected by the marginal-edges of the backing board. It is also obvious While I have particularly described a holder for use 4 V in shipping phonograph records, it is obvious that the holder may also be used for shipping other articles, such as photographs, drawings, and the like, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In combination with a jacket for containing a phonograph record therein and said jacket having edges in tangential relation with respect to the periphery of the record, a holder for shipping the jacket with the phonograph record therein, said holder comprising a substantially rigid backing board conforming to the general shape of the jacket and of larger dimensions to provide relatively wide marginal portions surrounding the edges of the jacket when the jacket with the record therein is backed by said board, means providing spaced apart pockets on the board, each of said means consisting of front and back panels connected together by a side fold and one of said panels having a bottom flap folded overthe bottom edge of the other panel, adhesive connecting the bottom flap with the said other panel, adhesive fixing one of the panels of each pocket forming means to a. face of the backing board with the side foldsinset from respective opposite side edges of the backing board and spaced apart in accordance to width of the jacket and said ends of the panels inset from the respective other edges of the backing board, said panels of the pocket forming means being unconnected along the other sides and top edges to pass the jacket with the phonograph record therethrough with opposite sideedgesof the jacket sliding within and along the side folds to seat a bottom edge of the jacket upon the folds of the bottom flaps, sealing fiaps on the unconnected ends of the panels which are fixed to the backing board and having gum portions foldable over the corresponding ends of the other panels to be sealed thereto for immovably retaining the jacket with the record therein within the margins of the backing board. e

2. In combination with a jacket for containing a phonograph record therein and said jacket having edges in tangential relation with respect to the periphery of the record, a holder for shipping the jacket and phonograph record therein, said holder comprising a substantially rigid backing board conforming to the general shape of the jacket and of larger dimensions to provide relatively wide marginal portions surrounding the edges of the jacket when the jacket with the record therein is backed bysaid board, means providing spaced apart pockets on the backing board, said pocket means consisting of a panel having side flaps connected with sides thereof by folds to overlie said panel and said panel having a pair of bottom flaps folded over bottom portionsof theside flaps, adhesive connecting the bottom flaps with the side flaps, said side flaps having free inner and top edges, a pair of sealing flaps on the panel and adapted to fold over the free top edges of the side flaps, said panel having a line of severance between therfree inner edges of the side flaps for separation into separate pockets for attachment to the backing board in said spaced apart relation with the side folds inset from respective opposite side edges of the backing board and spaced apart in accordance to Width of the jacket and with folds of the bottom and sealing flaps similarly inset from the respective other edges of the backing board, adhesive for securing the pockets in said'positions to pass the. jacket with the phonograph record therein into said pockets with opposite side edges of the jacket sliding within and along the folds of the side flaps to seat a bottom edge of the jacket upon the folds of the bottom flaps, and gum on the sealing flaps for securing the sealing flaps over the free edges of the side flaps for immovably retaining the jacket. and phonograph record within said protective margins of the backing board.

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